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The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 12 / Verses from the Oldest Portfolio

Chapter 31: NOTES.
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The volume gathers early and miscellaneous poems by the author, ranging from youthful translations and first verses to illustrated annual pieces, ballads, and lyrical sketches. Poems move between playful satire and tender reflection, switching from comic portraits and campus-table scenes to fanciful supernatural vignettes and meditations on nature, art, and memory. Classical allusions and light parody sit beside descriptive studies of landscape and domestic feeling, creating a varied sequence that showcases energetic verbal wit, occasional formal experiments, and a developing lyrical voice.

NOTES.

Page 6. "They're as safe as Dan'l Malcolm." The following epitaph is still to be read on a tall grave-stone standing as yet undisturbed among the transplanted monuments of the dead in Copp's Hill Burial-Ground, one of the three city cemeteries which have been desecrated and ruined within my own remembrance:—

                        "Here lies buried in a
                       Stone Grave 10 feet deep,
                       Cap' DANIEL MALCOLM Merch'
                         Who departed this Life
                           October 23d, 1769,
                             Aged 44 years,
                         a true son of Liberty,
                        a Friend to the Publick,
                        an Enemy to oppression,
                        and one of the foremost
                      in opposing the Revenue Acts
                              on America."

Page 62. This broad-browed youth.
Benjamin Robbins Curtis.

Page 62. The stripling smooth of face and slight.
George Tyler Bigelow.